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a tree, except in connection with the work. You can not talk politics or 

 religion and spray a tree at the same time; you can't talk politics then, 

 I don't care what your politics are; you may be a prohibitionist even. 



Our work is all arranged just on that plan. With our steam sprayer 

 it requires 'five men. We have two, one at each side to watch the men 

 that they do the spraying properly, that they do not overlook a branch or 

 a twig. It seems like, perhaps, a good deal of expense, and you probably 

 think you can not afford it; but those men who do nothing else but see 

 that the rest do their work as they should are the most profitable men 

 you have, and you will find it so. But it takes a very peculiar man to go 

 on a spraying force; it takes a very peculiar man. He must not only be 

 able to detect the San Jose Scale, but he must be able to hold his tem- 

 per, I don't care if a woman pitches on him; and the last is as important 

 as the first. Talk about women holding their tongues! My goodness, me! 

 It is not half as hard as for a man to go into an orchard and refrain from 

 talking, except as related to the vpork, when they are spraying; but it is 

 prohibited. There is no interruption; but, as I said before, I once got a 

 pretty severe letter from a mother complaining about her boy not being 

 allowed to talk. It is all right for them to talk sometimes, but not when 

 working, excepting about their work. 



Now, I want to tell you something about the machines we are using, and 

 how we are using them. We have in the whole equipment one Orleans 

 steel sprayer. We have four large three-hundred-gallon tanks, with a Mor- 

 rill & Morley's pump. I do not want to advertise anybody's pump, but we 

 use this because the men lilie it better and because they can do good work 

 with it. We have been using four of those on our largest machines, except 

 the steam sprayer. Now I told you this morning that the men are prac- 

 tically told to be on their guard, to be on the watch, and if they see 

 anything about the machine that can be improved I want to know it, and 

 they get full credit for it, and we will tear anything to pieces if we can 

 improve it by any change. We have torn our steam sprayer all to pieces 

 twice, and if we keep on we will get something that manufacturers never 

 dreamed of making. When you get this one, you will notice that in front 

 there is a barrel. As these machines come from the factory the tank is 

 partitioned off. A portion of the front part is intended for holding water, 

 with which it supplies the boiler. The first thing I knew my men in 

 charge had the partition torn out, increasing the capacity, which means a 

 good deal, because if we could have the whole tank full it would last about 

 half a day, and they could fill it up again at noon; otherwise they would 

 run out of material about 11 o'clock. By that means we get larger capacity. 

 We put the barrel in front, and can supply the boiler from that by attach- 

 ing a pipe from the boiler to the barrel. But we ran into another trouble. 

 That pipe would freeze, and for a day or two it bothered us. Then we 

 :had stop-cocks put in, and when we had replenished the boiler as we let 

 it out of the pipe we had no trouble with the freezing. 



